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Re:Second Swiss firm allegedly sold encrypted spying devices by fsflover on Sunday November 29, 2020 @03:51AM (#25243886)
It still can be detected if you have two identical compilers with and without the backdoor. So we should collect all versions.
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Re:Second Swiss firm allegedly sold encrypted spying devices by saalweachter on Sunday November 29, 2020 @08:43AM (#25245062)
Also, unless your compiler back door is functionally an AI, sufficiently large changes to the software will break its backdoor inserting routines.
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